EUGENE (04-Jul) — Looking at the entry list for tomorrow’s Bowerman Mile at the 50th Prefontaine Classic here at Hayward Field, Grant Fisher’s name sticks out. The double Olympic bronze medalist in the 5000m and 10,000m from Paris last August has the slowest –and likely the oldest– personal best in the field: 3:59.38.
He ran that time ten years ago when he was a senior at Grand Blanc High School in Michigan. At the time he became the seventh American to break four minutes for the mile while in high school.
“You look at the start list and you see a 3:59 in there and it’s like, how’d that guy get in to it?” Fisher joked at a press conference today…